Why did you say “or” and then not present a new option?

Those would be the biggest benefits to him, in my eyes.

It’s the latter. He was ostensibly a liberal for years. Now that it benefits him, he’s far right.

It all hinges upon which government you consider “legitimate.”

We can’t pretend violent rebellions aren’t eventually considered legitimate, good or bad. Look at the US.

That’s weird, I thought China has currency and all sorts of other capitalist systems.

Pirates elected their leaders. Hell, we do too. POTUS is elected. So is Congress.

Pirates are notable because the supreme authority was 1 or 2 rungs of the ladder above you, which is the spirit of your comment.

Quest does not require a Meta account any more thanks to GDPR.

I regret to inform you that my mind has been blown on this day.

Well when someone is being accused of feigning ignorance when it could just be they’re not from Germany and not chronically online, I find that very funny too.

You’re just very funny, I guess.

Don’t make silly arguments if you don’t want them rebutted by boilerplate counter arguments.

Obviously local news is going to be heard by local people before international people hear about it by international news. You didn’t need to say that.

No, I get your definition, I just disagree with it.

Yeah it’s pretty new information that chronically online people might already know, but others may not.

I just heard about it like an hour ago via NPR.

Seems we have different definitions of “in the government.”

This is a much more reasonable take than what you said earlier, as much as I’d prefer it were not true.

They had 93 seats in the German parliament as of 2017 and are now the second most popular party as of a 2023 poll.

I just got those numbers from a DDG search two minutes ago. Where did you get your information?

The differences vary from school to school, and sometimes depend on which electives you took or what your GPA was.

They generally believe Democrats in office are bad for the economy, but they’ll be damned if they take government handouts and make the deficit worse.

Neither are very true, but they win elections.

The legions of hicks love this kind of virtue signaling oppression and don’t mind that they’re stuck in a trailer park. Priorities.

Hilariously they still call them millenials.